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Alan Mann gives an interesting lecture. I’ve set through many over the years, and always came away knowing something genealogically techie that I hadn’t known before. His lecture on “What’s New in Family History Technology” was reported on by Sharron Continue reading Alan Mann Speaks on “What’s New”
It was reported this morning in the MoSGA Messenger blog that the Keith Zimmer, working at the St. Louis Public Library, has indexed the obituaries, death notices, and burial permits noted in the Post-Dispatch for following years: 1880-1930 1942-1945 1960-1963 Continue reading St. Louis Post Dispatch Obituaries Index
The following databases have been added at The Original Record this week: 1802 Middlesex Poll Book A poll to elect two knights of the shire to represent the county of Middlesex, was held at Brentford 13 to 29 July 1802. Continue reading New Databases at The Original Record
The following items were recently added to the Family Tree Connection database: CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Orphans’ Home Society 1925 Report – Los Angeles Orphans’ Home Society, Forty-fourth Annual Report, for the year ending June thirtieth, 1925. Includes lists of the Continue reading New Databases at Family Tree Connection
March 4, 2009: The FamilySearch indexing application is available in three new languages: Italian, Portuguese, and Russian. These languages are in addition to English, French, German, and Spanish. They have current indexing projects in all of these languages except Portuguese. Continue reading FamilySearch Indexing Update
The following new small databases have recently been added at Family Tree Connection: CALIFORNIA Southern California University 1922 Commencement – University of Southern California, Commencement Week, June eleventh to fifteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, Los Angeles. MAINE Bangor Theological Seminary Continue reading New Small Databases at Family Tree Connection
A while back I downloaded the death certificate from the Cook County Genealogy Online website for a cousin whose name was Albert Schaaf. He died April 26, 1935 in Chicago. According to the Death Certificate he was buried in the Continue reading He’s Buried in Waldheim Cemetery… or is he?
The following was written by FamilyRelatives.com staff: Finding out about your ancestor’s occupation and achievements allows the family historian to build a more complete picture of your ancestors’ past. Familyrelatives.com has released a collection of Professional member lists including the Continue reading Engineers and Professional List of Members Published on Familyrelatives.com
The following British databases were added at The Original Record this week: 1824 London Bankrupt Diary English bankrupts could be dealt with in the provinces (Country) or London (Town). Town proceedings covered not only London but many provincial cases. The Continue reading New Databases Posted at The Original Record
The following was received from Paul Nauta at FamilySearch today: Familysearch added over 6 million new indexed records and 1.4 million new images since January 5, 2009, to its Record Search pilot (see chart below). The West Virginia birth, marriage, Continue reading New Data at FamilySearch Record Search Pilot
Tom Kemp, with GenealogyBank, just sent me a list of exciting new changes that have been made to the search capabilities in the Historic Newspaper Collection at GenealogyBank. The new search allows the following that we could not do before: Continue reading Exciting New Search Upgrades at GenealogyBank.com
The following small databases have been recently posted at the Family Tree Connection website: ALABAMA Alabama Penitentiary 1872 Report – Annual Report of the Inspector of the Alabama Penitentiary, From October 1, 1871, to October 1, 1872, to the Governor. Continue reading Family Tree Connection Database Update
The Missouri History Museum recently launched the Genealogy and Local History Index which includes references to hundreds of thousands of St. Louis ancestors. In this index, you can search by personal name, business/corporate name, or street address. (The latter search Continue reading The New Missouri History Museum “Genealogy & Local History Index” Online
World’s Leading Online Family History Resource Adds More Than 4 Million New Records to Its Civil War Collection, Including More Than 20,000 Letters Written to and from Lincoln. PROVO, UTAH – Feb. 12, 2009 – Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online Continue reading Ancestry Marks Lincoln’s 200th Birthday With the Launch of 5 Databases Featuring Millions of Civil War Era Records
The following news release was just received from my old friend, Claire LeBeaux, who tells me she has gone to work doing PR work for OneGreatFamily. It was good to hear from her again. Too many hits to be useful?! Continue reading Upgrades to the Online OneGreatFamily.com Database